The shortlist for the best in Australian publishing has been revealed, with the Mumbrella Publish Awards 2020 announcing its finalists across 28 categories.
Medium Rare Content managed to secure 16 shortlisted entries, including for Publishing Company of the Year, Custom Publication of the Year and Business Publication of the Year.
Bauer Media followed closely behind, with 12 nominations, including Salesperson/Team of the Year, Columnist of the Year and Special Edition of the Year.
Other notable nominations included:
Launch/Relaunch of the Year
Centennial Beauty
ausbiz – Ausbiz TV
The Hunter River Times
The West Live – The West Australian
Vogue VIP – Vogue Australia with News Corp Australia
Magazine Cover of the Year – Consumer/Custom
get lost Magazine – Grin Creative for get lost
Gourmet Traveller – Bauer Media
Retromotive Magazine – Retromotive
Stellar – News Corp Australia
Voyage – Storyation for APT
Designer of the Year
Anita Jokovich – Art Director, Australian Traveller – Australian Traveller Media
Blaise Curran – Art Director, Voyage (APT) – Storyation
Caitlin Wynne – Senior Designer, frankie – Next Media
Kate Barnett – Creative Director, Company Director – Medium Rare Content Agency
Tony Rice – Creative Director, Qantas Magazine – Medium Rare Content Agency
Best Publisher-Led Advertising Campaign
Bauer Media for Story54
BuzzFeed Australia with Zenith Media Singapore for Singapore Tourism Board
Pedestrian.tv – Pedestrian Group with BWS, M&C Saatchi for BWS
Snapchat for Westpac
Time Out Australia for Google Signature Searches
Best Podcast
Extremes – VICE Australia with Spotify
I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin – News Corp Australia
Mamamia Out Loud – Mamamia
Nut Jobs – Audible
Squiz Kids – The Squiz
Single Article of the Year
Dan Van Boom – Ruby – CNET for CBS Interactive
Emily McPherson – Queensland man took his own life after learning of Centrelink debt, mum says – Nine.com.au
Juliet Rieden – How one boy, my father, survived the Holocaust – The Australian Women’s Weekly with Pan Macmillan for Bauer Media
Sue Smethurst – They’ll Bury Me In My Yellows – The Australian Women’s Weekly for Bauer Media
Trent Dalton & Nic Walker – Back from the Black – The Australian with The Weekend Australian Magazine
Newsletter of the Year
frankie – Next Media
InnovationAus
Squiz Today – The Squiz
The Australian – News Corp Australia
The Bachelor In Paradise Newsletter – 10 play – Network Ten
Event of the Year
JONES Beauty Awards – Medium Rare Content Agency for David Jones
Leadership Matters: Premier Points – Seven West Media with Curtin University
Selfish Saturday – Pedestrian Group for The House of Angostura
Transform 2020 – Elite Agent
Special Edition of the Year
Australian Traveller – Australian Traveller Media
The Australian Financial Review Magazine – Nine
The Australian Women’s Weekly: Icons – Bauer Media Australia with The Australian Women’s Weekly
Young Writer of the Year (30 or under)
Anastasia Santoreneos – Yahoo Finance Australia, Verizon Media
Floyd Alexander-Hunt – LSJ: The Law Society of NSW Journal, The Law Society of NSW
Jack Derwin – Business Insider Australia, Pedestrian Group
Jackson Ryan – CNET, CBS Interactive
Kate Allman -LSJ: The Law Society of NSW Journal, The Law Society of NSW
Journalist of the Year
Emily McPherson – Nine.com.au
Genevieve Gannon – The Australian Women’s Weekly for Bauer Media
Kate Allman – LSJ: The Law Society of NSW Journal: The Law Society of NSW
Shannon Molloy – news.com.au
Wilson da Silva
Columnist of the Year
Donal Curtin – Acuity Magazine, Medium Rare Content for Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
Jo Abi – 9Honey, Nine.com.au
Pat McDermott – Australian Women’s Weekly, Bauer Media
Editor of the Year – Consumer/Custom
Clare Stephens – Mamamia
Joanna Hunkin – Gourmet Traveller, Bauer Media
Sarrah Le Marquand – Stellar and Body+Soul, News Corp Australia
Sophie Kalagas – frankie, Next Media
Tessa Gallagher – Urban List
Publish Leader of the Year
Fiorella Di Santo – Chief Operating Officer, Medium Rare Content Agency
Michael Rodrigues – Managing Director, Time Out Australia
Vanessa Lawrence – Publisher, Pedestrian Group
Brand of the Year
AFL Media – AFL
Nine.com.au
Pedestrian TV – Pedestrian Group
The Australian Women’s Weekly – Bauer Media Australia
Urban List
Yahoo – Verizon Media
Website of the Year – Consumer/Custom
finder.com.au – Finder
Man of Many
Consumer Publication of the Year
Australian Traveller – Australian Traveller Media
Boss Hunting – Luxity Media
Gourmet Traveller – Bauer Media
Man of Many
Stellar – News Corp Australia
Urban List
We Are Explorers
Publishing Company of the Year
Medium Rare Content Agency
Pedestrian Group
Pip Media
Time Out Australia
The Mumbrella Publish Award winners will be announced virtually on November 5 via live video stream, which will be free to view on Mumbrella.
To view the full list of nominees, click here.
